Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011

This section does not start to apply to a local government until 2 months after the end of the first full financial year after the day prescribed for the local government under section 123(1).

Within 2 months after the end of each financial year, a local government must give the chief executive a report about the operation, in the financial year, of all the local government’s waste reduction and recycling plans in force in its local government area.

The report must be in the approved form and must otherwise comply with the requirements of this section.

However, the local government is not required to include in the report any information that has already been supplied to the chief executive in a waste data return in relation to a waste disposal site operated by or for the local government.

Without limiting what the approved form may require, the approved form may require the following—

details of any recycling programs conducted or managed by or for the local government during the year, including—

the amounts and types of waste collected and recycled, or collected and delivered to some other entity for recycling, under the programs; and

the names and addresses of the facilities used in the programs;

details of local government waste services to households;

amounts and types of waste delivered directly to waste facilities from individual households;

the total amount of energy generated in the year from landfill gas;

details of landfills operated by or for the local government during the year, including—

the amounts and types of waste disposed of during the year to the landfills; and

the name, address, capacity and life expectancy of each landfill that started operation during the year; and

the name, address and capacity of each landfill that ceased operation during the year;

the amounts and types of waste collected by or for the local government and disposed of to landfill at waste facilities other than those operated by or for the local government, and the addresses of the waste facilities.

The matters mentioned in subsection (4) must be addressed in relation to waste generated within or outside the local government’s area.

The report must also give details of the following—

the types of waste generated by the local government in carrying out its activities;

actions taken to reduce the amount of waste generated by the local government in carrying out its activities;

actions taken to increase the use of recycled material by the local government;

actions taken by the local government to improve the re-use and recycling of—

waste generated by the local government; and

the types of waste generated in the local government area;

the amount and types of waste that were the subject of offences against the general littering provision or the illegal dumping of waste provision and were collected by the local government;

progress made by the local government, having regard to—

performance indicators, however referred to, included in the local government’s waste reduction and recycling plans; and

any other performance indicators prescribed under a regulation for gauging performance under local government waste reduction and recycling plans;

how the local government has contributed towards achieving the goals and targets under the State’s waste management strategy.